Beijing talks look to have neatly concluded, just in time for Trump to visit Davos and claim victory Everything is slotting neatly into place for peace to be declared in the trade war between the US and China. The

Pollution in tube stations 30 times higher than beside busy roads in capital, experts say Fresh concerns over air quality on the London Underground have been raised after researchers found that the concentration of particulate pollution in tube stations was up to 30 times higher than beside busy roads in the capital. Air pollution experts have called for more analysis of the possible harmful effects of the underground’s particulates.

Trade war with US is handbrake on growth in world’s second biggest economy Sales of cars in China have dropped for the first time in more than 20 years, in a sign of the importance for ending the trade dispute between the US and China as the world economy begins to falter. As the US and China appeared to be edging closer to ending the trade dispute between them on Wednesday, the figures illustrate how the bitter standoff, as well as sluggish local demand, have acted as a handbrake on growth in the world’s second biggest economy.

Former dressmaker to the Queen has called in administrators for second time in a decade The luxury fashion house Hardy Amies has collapsed into administration for the second time in just over a decade. Founded 73 years ago on Savile Row by a former dressmaker to the Queen, the renowned men’s tailor has called in administrators who are seeking buyers for the brands’ UK operations and intellectual property rights.

Figure, in written evidence to parliamentary inquiry, is almost £40m less than Next Amazon has confirmed it pays UK business rates of only £63.4m, almost £40m less than Next, despite clocking up more than double the sales in the UK of the clothing and home retailer. In written evidence to a parliamentary inquiry, the online specialist said its UK sales amounted to £8.77bn and it paid business rates on about 94 buildings and on a number of locker sites in the UK.

Sandy Parakilas, who worked at Facebook before opposing its use of personal data, ‘to work on data protection’ Apple has reportedly hired a former Facebook employee who blew the whistle on Facebook’s data-sharing policies exposed during the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Sandy Parakilas, a product manager at Facebook in 2011 and 2012, once gave evidence to the Commons about privacy abuses at Facebook and has been outspoken about the reportedly lax approach to data protection he witnessed at the social network during his time there.

From princesses on shopping sprees to celebrities having sex in the back of the car, the men and women at the wheel have seen it all. And, just occasionally, the secrets spill out … In the early hours of one morning, nearly a decade ago, chauffeur Jayne Amelia Larson found herself trying to extricate the son of one of the wealthiest men in Los Angeles from the back of her car. The then-chauffeur had been driving the twentysomething party boy up and down Santa Monica Boulevard in her Lincoln Town car as he tried to procure a “transvestite prostitute” for his girlfriend who, he said, “wanted to convert a gay guy”. After several hours, he threw up on the back seat and fell into a drunken slumber, then woke up and tried to urinate in the car. “He’d been in rehab again and again,” says Larson, recalling the incident that took place just weeks into her new career. “Another driver I later met had been his family’s driver, and said the kid repeatedly did stuff in the car you would not believe, like he went to the bathroom there because he was just so wasted. And I don’t mean in a clean way; I mean in an awful way.”

The talks in Beijing look to have neatly concluded, just in time for Trump to visit Davos and claim victory Everything is slotting neatly into place for peace to be declared in the trade war between the US and China. The

Annual growth in economic output per hour of work drops in third quarter of 2018 – ONS The productivity of British workers fell to a two-year low in the third quarter of last year, according to official figures – amid warnings that failures of government policy and Brexit are damaging efficiency growth. According to the

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